Selena climbed the stairs with quiet steps, her dress trailing a whisper of silk down the hallway as the wall lights cast narrow shadows. She knocked twice and pushed the door open without waiting, already prepared to remind Kade that the advisors were arriving as a group and had brought two allied Alphas with them. Her words died halfway out when she saw him standing there. His shirt was hastily buttoned, the collar askew, the skin on his neck red as if he had been walking in the sun or ...